Palermo Essentials

Palermo Essentials

“Palermo Essentials” is my collection of links for digital nomads visiting Palermo.

I advice to dedicate a screen of your smartphone to bookmarks related to Palermo, so you can feel the pulse of the city with a look at your smartphone.

This quick guide for nomad workers was inspired by Awesome Linux.

Contents

• Accommodations
• Transports
• Sightseeing
• Food
• Incubators
• Coworking
• Open Source Communities
• Cultural Events
• Webcam
• Infrastructures
• Minisites

Accommodations

• Airbnb - The city of Palermo has an agreement with Airbnb for promoting tourism.

Transports

• Palermo Airport - Information about flights, bus and train connection to the city centre.
• Moovit APP - Public Transit App, includes city buses and connection to the airport.
• Portale Open Data - Comune di Palermo - Source of the GFTS dataset used by Public Transit Apps.
• AMAT - The company responsible for public transportation in Palermo.
• Trenitalia - The company responsible for Trains transportation in Italy.
• Palermo Centrale - The main railway and bus station.
• Port of Palermo - Information about ferries.
• Mobilita Palermo - Blog about Transport, Urban Planning and Infrastructure.

Sightseeing

• Teatro Politeama - Theatre located in the main square of the modern city center.
• Teatro Massimo - The biggest Opera House in Italy.
• Unesco Arabo Normanna - Information about the World Heritage Sites in Palermo.
• Galleria d’Arte Moderna - Modern Art Museum.
• Mondello Beach - Palermo’s beach. You can choose to visit the beach using one of free paths to the sea or you can pay to enter in areas with services for tourists.
• Santuario Santa Rosalia - The sanctuary on the top of “Monte Pellegrino”, a mountain that surrounds Palermo.
• Renzo Barbera Stadium - Football stadium (open on match days ONLY).
• Rinascente - Italy’s most elegant department store.

Food

• Antica Focacceria San Francesco - Traditional Sicilian Food.
• Fud Bottega Sicula - Modern Sicilian Food.
• Bistrò del Teatro Massimo - Bar inside Teatro Massimo.
• Ballarak - Brewery.
• San Lorenzo Mercato - Store of Sicilian Food.

Incubators

• ARCA - University business incubator.
• Creziplus - Creative business incubator.

Coworking

• Neunoi - Coworking located in the old city center.
• Magneti - Coworking located in the modern city center.
• Scalo 5B - Coworking located inside Fiera del Mediterraneo.

Communities

• Open Data Sicilia - Open Data community.
• Palermo PHP User Group - Palermo PHP User Group.
• Palermo Wordpress Meetup - Palermo Wordpress User Group.
• Palermo Python User Group - Palermo Python User Group.
• Goolge Developers Group Palermo - Google Technologies Group.
• Free Circle - Linux Users Group.
• Mozilla Campus Club - Open Source Campus Club.

Events

• Le vie dei Tesori - A festival that promotes the most important Art sites in Palermo,Agrigento, Messina, Caltanissetta, Siracusa.
• Creative Mornings Palermo - Breakfast lecture series for the creative community.
• Una Marina di Libri - Book festival.
• Piano City Palermo - Piano festival.
• WIAD - World Information Architecture Day.
• La Domenica Favorita - An event to discover the biggest park of Palermo.
• Fiera del Mediterraneo - Palermo trade fair.
• La Settimana delle Culture - Festival of Culture.
• La Via dei Librai - Book festival.
• Startup weekend Palermo - 54-hour weekend event to launch startups.

Webcam

• List of Palermo webcams.

Infrastructures

• Open Hub Med - Internet Exchange Point and Datacenter.
• Sicily HUB - Internet Exchange Point and Datacenter.
• Anello Telematico Comunale - Municipal broadband network.
• Open Fiber - Broadband network provider.

Minisites

• Seven reasons to move to Palermo - an invitation to business and IT People.
• Two days in Palermo - A quick tourist guide of Palermo.
• Palermo 2030 - A list of Palermo urban development projects.